The latest version of IE is 6, and it has certainly accumulated an impressive record of holes: 153 since 18 April 2001, according to the SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities Archive. There have been some real doozies in there. For instance...

one of ms's better ideas an embeded browser in principal works really well but in the real world it just makes it real hard for the os it is embeded in to be secure. Another good idea that went to crud.

one of ms's better ideas an embeded browser in principal works really well but in the real world it just makes it real hard for the os it is embeded in to be secure. Another good idea that went to crud.

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I think they embedded IE to kill Netscape and it worked. But wait, there's more,
up jumped Firefox!
Microsoft spent some time and money explaining in court, as to why they embedded IE. I saw what they were doing from the first minute I heard about it.

By the way, Mozilla is providing us an ad free browser for no price. You can donate to the folks that are doing this good work.